Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-18
WOMAN'S AMBITION.
Kew English Fad Which Bellies Have
Ad9p'ed-Pr0mpted By Desire
60 be I8Duisb,
Have Shocked Society =
Few Years Ago.
Now York NNorI5.

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and customs of New York as sny other |
obs river il town said the other uighs. |
Probably half Of the inhabitants !
Ct New York know him well by sight, |
and very large number By name |.
lie is Of slim and erect figure, hss hair
that school girls call "silyereC," { dcoor-
ing black mustache, an income CT shout
81. 600 3 year, and he fndS that be can
keep himself in admirable condition by
walking. He is as regular and indefati-
gable 8 r0under as the town can
snow. Acute observers have noJed
the fact tn he is apt to glance
over his shoulders st passiouatelY
pretty women when they pass him. 1t
may be true that nc is more or le5s Of 2
"mssher," but he is still g msO Ct wide
experience. Perhaps IL was On this &C
count that the little group of men who
surrounded the table ct Delnorico's,
where he vas holding forth, paid unusual
attention to his rambling mOuCl2cue.
"Tne tendencies of the time" contip-
ued the club man, "auOng New York
women are decidedly masculine. 1t is
coni iercd chic for Girl to assume the
manners OF mIr, AID the more pro
nou1ced are her tendencies IL this di-
recti0u, the more popularity size is likely
u eri W augCC women OF her own par
Ocular set. wss born here aEd l an
nearing my for:ieth summer
'Ye-as, you are" interrupted one OF
the isterers-a SD m21-skepticallv.
"I'il bet g hundred you'll never see your
iortY-sig6th winter again"
"Aud yct," continued the club man,
aE citing lot TO hesr the interruption,
New York women c9ntiGuzIy sur
prise ne. When l ssy I remember
the time when woman Wto
smoked 4 cigarette would be considered
( fast, l 70 not SPEAK OF before the war,
| aus Ct Is period OF eight or ten years ago.
| Now g;rI whO o. i1cts 10 g cigarette If
! ter dinner is looked upon as q prudc.
( drGw the distinction very sharply between
/ ladies aud women VINO pose as ladies'.
| one hears 8 lot Of balderdasa about town
concerning morphine clubs, poker
Clubs end opium Joints that
/ This is pure rot, OF course. New York
/ lsaios do not subject Themselves TO the
/ danger end notoril.Y ths- would natur-
/ ally result from sUcA places, to say
nothing Of the fact that tlEy you'd re-
.
/ from feelings q natural deIicscy. BU.
/ tina. women gamble, pley for high axes,
I invest heavily liz the market Gld take
! risks napi.ualY thG, would etar3le
/ conservative ODe-atoIs can e2siIV be
proved. i know lots q ladies' Who talk
as intelligeullv about t1e sock market IS
! their husbands. There are i've or sig up
/ town brokers' Offices where the patrols
/ e-e almost entirely Of he GeGtleT seG, ana
e here stocks are sold in fractional los
Tbey are nothing m0re tbsn bucket shops
N point e fact, but are often patron
lied by women Cf gEquesti0nCG re-
soect2b,ity. There wss ore place, on tie
/ corner Of Broadway ard Thictisth street,
II at made speCiSity OF this sort Of trsde,
/ used to wander up there once il c
while Just to have look AZ the women
At ell times during tie d&v there were
forty or fifty of them present, eud the
man must have resped fortune. La
fact, so much talk did MS success Cc-
cGsion that q rival went n s16 settled
in his Icc& iity, thai is Jus. above the
GlsCY House II elgaget floor, fitted l.
IN the most magnificent fashion, ia ns-
hogGuy, cut glass sud GltIat, and had if
elegantly upholstered snd C9T0eted and
made a bid for the women stock g2mb-
Iers Of New York. He was 8 quiet and
careful Usr, and knew exactly what Re
was about There was & good corps q
clerks dnt operators, q e,9ck-hcari aDj
ell tLSt. The number Of the building
wss 1912 Broadway, ard the name
on the window was n. Hatch. Whether
the sho7iuess of the place m2Ge woman
afIaid Of it or not, 1 don't know. A sN
events there was Il good de2L Of talk, AID
tiaalIy The broker moved away a ebout
the same time there was trouble across
the street, think his name was Law
TenCC-iEd he, too, disappeared if l
should give you list Of the names
OF women whom | have seen oPcr-
atins In these two places you'd be
amazed. What would New YOlk have
thought of our mothers and gTsndilOthers
If t1ey had gone gambling in bCCketshOps
during the day,wnile their husbands we're
in business down town? This is exactly
what New York women CT responsibility
do nowadays, and yet l. occasions no
talk
rI.'s the thirst for excitement"
''It'5 the desire 10 appear manrish,
dashiDg aud unusual" SAID the club man,
decidedly. "You 90 Up 10 Central park
any day, and you viii see from ten 10 &
dozen girls driving laundering big teams
Of horses to maii-caCts, doa-car.s and
T-carts. These high, sho1y and
| heavy vehicles were always driven by
men until within the past YeGr or so, aud
| they're mOussrously uncomfortable,
but roW the girls have taken to driving
/ their DOG carts in town Just as the boys
used to DO. Yesterday 1 saw girl,
| whose mother il In the most exclusive
Of tee heavy sets iE New York, drive g
| big dog cSTl, with red wheels, as nigh
cs house, down Fifth avenue in Q
! style that would asSEish Hank Monk.
There was 3 biz chestnut mare Ia
the shafts, and she pounded
ahead ike msjOr. The girl
wh;rled In and out among the carts and
trucks with the skill Of veteran, but
( there was PRECISELY not one in 10, 900 who
saw her who did not put her doEn for
a fes5 woman. In point Of fact, she Is
as modest and good u girl Us ever lived,
Still, she will drive her brothers bis